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July 2014

Before we dive into the Star Wars era, we look at some comics leading up to the Star Wars series, beginning with jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, from the adaptation of the movie to the first seven issues of the comic series!

“Spider-Verse” is a Marvel event starting during the fall of 2014. In this event, every Spider-Man from the entire Marvel multiverse will be featured during the course of the story. In order to prepare for this huge spider-centric event, one of the Comic Book Time Machine hosts, Matt Anderson, will be reading …

Daniel jumps the Comic Book Time Machine to 1975, avoiding all time paradoxes, and grabs an issue of First Issue Special #5 featuring the origin of Manhunter Mark Shaw as written and penciled by Jack Kirby. Daniel discusses the story, who is Mark Shaw, John Ostrander and Kim Yale’s influence …

The beginning of a comic podcasting experiment: using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re going through almost all of the comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published while they were publishing Star Wars, from 1977 to 1986.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick changed the face of science fiction cinema. In 1976, Jack Kirby adapted it into a comic book? Yes, and it is SO Kirby. In this episode we are going back in time to read some of the Marvel licensed sci-fi comics that were already running the …

It’s the first episode of the Comic Book Time Machine! For this episode, we explore what some of our favorite comic book series are and/or were. This episode introduces us as hosts and some of our tastes for and history with comic books.